2008 Youth Kansas State Fishing Champion
Brande Branine is the KHP Reel Deal Club President, the current Kansas State Champion and Kansas Bass Chapter Federation Nation Youth Director Assistant. She is eighteen years old and is a student at Campus High School in Haysville.
Brande joined the Wichita Junior Bass Club (WJBC) at age five and was a member of this club from 1995-2007. She won her first tournament and big bass at age five. Her club record is three 1st place finishes, five 2nd places finishes, four 3rd place finishes and 3 big bass awards and four times runner up for Angler of the Year. She made the Kansas State Team in 2002, 2003, and as an alternate in 2004. She placed 1st in 1998 at Grand Lake in the Fall Bass Masters Youth Tournament.
In 1999 she placed 2nd in the same Tournament and. Brande has volunteered for the Special Olympics basketball tournament at Campus High School in 2007 and 2008. Brande volunteers at casting kids events and gives blood regularly at the Red Cross. Since joining KHP Reel Deal, Brande has participated in the Wichita Association for Retarded Children (ARC) Car Show in May, a C.A.S.T. event in June at El Dorado Lake, and “Cruisin” in The Jungle” Father’s Day car show sponsored by the Sedgwick County Zoo and ARC.
She also worked the mobile tank sponsored by Kansas Fish and Game at the Wichita River Festival; which she enjoyed and is looking forward to doing it next year as well. Brande assisted with a kids fishing day during a “Walk on the Wild side” event at the Great Plains Nature Center sponsored by the Wichita Eagle. She worked the Casting Kids event at Derby Fest and the trout tank sponsored by Make A Wish at the Kansas Sports Boat and Travel Show.
Brande participated in the Newton Veterans Day parade to promote the C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation and KHP Reel Deal Youth fishing in Wichita and Newton. Brande was also a volunteer and observer for the Federation Nation championship held at Milford lake in Junction City, Kansas this past November. In 2008, Brande was featured in articles in the Wichita Eagle, CatchItKansas.com and the Kansas Trooper Magazine.
